Logging Messages to the syslog.log File

You can enable the logging of APA and LAN Monitor status messages to the syslog.log file. The status messages are a subset of the messages APA logs to the nettl log file, but are reworded for readability and understandability.

For information on configuring APA to log status messages to the /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log file, see “Modifying HP APA Global Parameters”.

Examples

This section contains sample status messages that might appear in the syslog.log file. In these examples, a link is considered UP:

If its Operation Status (ifOper) is UP (the link can carry network traffic) and
If the link is part of a link aggregate and it has successfully negotiated via the protocol with the link partner to become a member of the link aggregate.

A link is considered DOWN:

Anytime its Operation Status (ifOper) status is DOWN (the link cannot carry network traffic) or
If the link is part of an automatic link aggregate and the protocol has failed to maintain the membership of the port in the link aggregate.

Mar  3 08:49:54 hpserver1 vmunix: APA/LM: Product is now running. 1
Mar  3 08:49:54 hpserver1 vmunix: APA/LM: Product is now stopped. 2
Mar  3 08:50:20 hpserver1 vmunix: APA/LM: LA:lan900 - lan7 is up 3
Mar  3 08:50:20 hpserver1 vmunix: APA/LM: LA:lan900 is up
Mar  3 08:50:20 hpserver1 vmunix: APA/LM: LA:lan900 - lan8 is up
Mar  3 08:50:20 hpserver1 vmunix: APA/LM: LA:lan900 - lan9 is up
Mar  3 08:51:34 hpserver1 vmunix: APA/LM: LA:lan900 - lan8 is down 4
Mar  3 08:50:26 hpserver1 vmunix: APA/LM: LA:lan900 - lan9 is removed 5
Mar  3 08:52:05 hpserver1 vmunix: APA/LM: LA:lan900 - lan7 is down 6
Mar  3 08:52:05 hpserver1 vmunix: APA/LM: LA:lan900 is down
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Mar  3 08:50:26 hpserver1 vmunix: APA/LM: LA:lan900 - lan8 is removed 7
Mar  3 08:50:26 hpserver1 vmunix: APA/LM: LA:lan900 - lan7 is removed
Mar  3 08:50:26 hpserver1 vmunix: APA/LM: LA:lan900 is cleared

The /sbin/init.d/hpapa start command was issued, for example, at system boot time.

The /sbin/init.d/hpapa stop command was issued.

Link aggregate (LA) 900 was created with three links 7, 8, and 9.

Link 8 is not operational.

Link 9 was removed from lan900; for example, by issuing the following command:

# nwmgr -d -A links=9 -I 900 -S apa

Link 7 and link aggregate 900 are not operational.

Link aggregate 900 was cleared; for example, by issuing the following command:

# nwmgr -d -A links=all -I 900 -S apa

If link aggregate 900 is a failover group, lan900 has a FOG: prefix instead of LA: as shown in the previous example.

For failover groups and Hot-standby mode link aggregates, the current active link is also displayed as in the following example:

Mar  3 08:58:03 hpserver1 vmunix: APA/LM: FOG:lan900 - lan1 is up (lan1 is active)
Mar  3 08:58:03 hpserver1 vmunix: APA/LM: FOG:lan900 is up (lan1 is active)
Mar  3 08:58:03 hpserver1 vmunix: APA/LM: FOG:lan900 - lan2 is up (lan1 is active)
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Mar  3 08:58:03 hpserver1 vmunix: APA/LM: FOG:lan900 - lan2 isn't receiving poll 1
Mar  3 08:58:03 hpserver1 vmunix: APA/LM: FOG:lan900 - lan2 now receiving poll \
 packets (lan1 is active) 2
Mar  3 08:58:03 hpserver1 vmunix: APA/LM: FOG:lan900 - Proactive Failover Occurred \
 (lan901 is active) 3

1	Connectivity among links in the failover group was lost.
2	The link in the failover group started receiving poll packets; it has recovered connectivity.
3	Proactive failover occurred in the failover group.

For detailed log messages, use the NetTL subsystem. See nettl(1M) for more information.

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